Applied AI Engineer

Job overview

The Applied AI Engineer role is onsite in San Francisco, CA. Compensation is not specified; the posting describes salary as competitive and notes meaningful equity depending on experience. Becoming is building Developmental Intelligence: AI for predicting how organisms change over time. This engineer builds software, infrastructure, and data systems that turn experimental biological data into predictive models. Working across software engineering, AI infrastructure, data engineering, and scientific computing, the role supports scientists and researchers with laboratory data pipelines, cloud platforms, internal tools, and model-serving systems.

What you'll do

• Design and develop production software, internal applications, scientific tools, APIs, backend services, web applications, dashboards, and experiment-tracking and visualization systems.
• Build biological data pipelines and infrastructure for AI training, evaluation, model serving, and inference.
• Maintain cloud infrastructure, distributed workloads, CI/CD, and GPU and high-performance computing support.
• Improve cybersecurity, identity and access controls, security monitoring, endpoint security, and data protection.
• Collaborate with scientists, machine learning researchers, and automation and hardware teams on laboratory integrations.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

applied ai engineer

san francisco ca

becoming

full-time

onsite

artificial intelligence

biological data

data engineering

cloud infrastructure

scientific computing

python

react

machine learning

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Full benefits, meaningful equity depending on experience, and opportunities for rapid growth in scope and responsibility.

Why this role

Works at the intersection of software engineering, AI infrastructure, data engineering, and scientific computing to support biological intelligence research.

About the employer

Becoming is hiring for this role. Industry: Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology). Sector: 54.